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THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE<br/>
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CHAPTER 5
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Saints exhorted to avoid uncleanness and walk uprightly—Husbands and wives should love each other.
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Be</span> ye therefore <sup>a</sup><a href="eph/5/1a" mark="a" type="S" title="GR imitators; 1 Cor. 11: 1; Philip. 3: 17 (13-21); TG God, the Standard of Righteousness; TG Jesus Christ, Exemplar.">followers</a> of God, as dear children;
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And <sup>a</sup><a href="eph/5/2a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Walking with God.">walk</a> in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an <sup>b</sup><a href="eph/5/2b" mark="b" type="A" title="Heb. 8: 3.">offering</a> and a <sup>c</sup><a href="eph/5/2c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Self-sacrifice.">sacrifice</a> to God for a sweetsmelling <sup>d</sup><a href="eph/5/2d" mark="d" type="A" title="Gen. 8: 21; Lev. 1: 9.">savour</a>.
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But <sup>a</sup><a href="eph/5/3a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Chastity; TG Fornication; TG Sexual Immorality.">fornication</a>, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh <sup>b</sup><a href="eph/5/3b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Saints.">saints</a>;
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Neither <sup>a</sup><a href="eph/5/4a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Filthiness.">filthiness</a>, nor <sup>b</sup><a href="eph/5/4b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Levity.">foolish</a> <sup>c</sup><a href="eph/5/4c" mark="c" type="A" title="Eccl. 5: 2; Matt. 12: 36.">talking</a>, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.
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For this ye know, that no <sup>a</sup><a href="eph/5/5a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Chastity; TG Whoredom.">whoremonger</a>, nor <sup>b</sup><a href="eph/5/5b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Uncleanness.">unclean</a> person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any <sup>c</sup><a href="eph/5/5c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Inheritance; TG Worthiness.">inheritance</a> in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
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Let no man <sup>a</sup><a href="eph/5/6a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Deceit.">deceive</a> you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the <sup>b</sup><a href="eph/5/6b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG God, Indignation of.">wrath</a> of God upon the children of <sup>c</sup><a href="eph/5/6c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Disobedience.">disobedience</a>.
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Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
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For ye were sometimes darkness, but now <i>are ye</i> light in the Lord: walk as <sup>a</sup><a href="eph/5/8a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Children of Light.">children</a> of <sup>b</sup><a href="eph/5/8b" mark="b" type="A" title="Rom. 12: 2.">light</a>:
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(For the fruit of the Spirit <i>is</i> in all <sup>a</sup><a href="eph/5/9a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Good Works.">goodness</a> and righteousness and truth;)
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Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.
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And have no <sup>a</sup><a href="eph/5/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 49: 6; Ps. 1: 1 (1-2); Prov. 1: 10 (10-19).">fellowship</a> with the unfruitful works of <sup>b</sup><a href="eph/5/11b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Darkness, Spiritual.">darkness</a>, but rather <sup>c</sup><a href="eph/5/11c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Reproof.">reprove</a> <i>them.</i>
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For it is a <sup>a</sup><a href="eph/5/12a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Shame.">shame</a> even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
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But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.
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Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee <sup>a</sup><a href="eph/5/14a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Light of the World; TG Light.">light</a>.
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See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
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Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
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Wherefore be ye not <sup>a</sup><a href="eph/5/17a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Wisdom.">unwise</a>, but understanding what the will of the Lord <i>is.</i>
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And be not <sup>a</sup><a href="eph/5/18a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Drunkenness; TG Word of Wisdom.">drunk</a> with wine, wherein is <sup>b</sup><a href="eph/5/18b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Temperance.">excess</a>; but be filled with the Spirit;
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Speaking to yourselves in psalms and <sup>a</sup><a href="eph/5/19a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Singing.">hymns</a> and spiritual songs, singing and making <sup>b</sup><a href="eph/5/19b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 3: 15.">melody</a> in your heart to the Lord;
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Giving <sup>a</sup><a href="eph/5/20a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Thanksgiving.">thanks</a> always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
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<sup>a</sup><a href="eph/5/21a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Reconciliation.">Submitting</a> yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="eph/5/22a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Marriage, Continuing Courtship in.">Wives</a>, <sup>b</sup><a href="eph/5/22b" mark="b" type="C" title="Esth. 1: 20 (20-22); TG Submissiveness.">submit</a> yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
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For the <sup>a</sup><a href="eph/5/23a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Marriage, Husbands.">husband</a> is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the <sup>b</sup><a href="eph/5/23b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Head of the Church.">head</a> of the <sup>c</sup><a href="eph/5/23c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Church.">church</a>: and he is the saviour of the body.
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Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so <i>let</i> the wives <i>be</i> to their own husbands in every thing.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="eph/5/25a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Family, Patriarchal.">Husbands</a>, <sup>b</sup><a href="eph/5/25b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Family, Love within; TG Love.">love</a> your <sup>c</sup><a href="eph/5/25c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Marriage, Continuing Courtship in.">wives</a>, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
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That he might <sup>a</sup><a href="eph/5/26a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Sanctification.">sanctify</a> and <sup>b</sup><a href="eph/5/26b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Purification.">cleanse</a> it with the washing of water by the word,
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That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
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So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies.  He that loveth his <sup>a</sup><a href="eph/5/28a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Marriage, Wives.">wife</a> loveth himself.
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For no man ever yet <sup>a</sup><a href="eph/5/29a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Hate.">hated</a> his own <sup>b</sup><a href="eph/5/29b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Body, Sanctity of.">flesh</a>; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
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For we are <sup>a</sup><a href="eph/5/30a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Cor. 6: 15.">members</a> of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
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For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be <sup>a</sup><a href="eph/5/31a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Marriage, Celestial; TG Unity.">one</a> flesh.
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This is a great <sup>a</sup><a href="eph/5/32a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Mysteries of Godliness.">mystery</a>: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
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Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the <sup>a</sup><a href="eph/5/33a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Marriage, Wives.">wife</a> <i>see</i> that she <sup>b</sup><a href="eph/5/33b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Courtesy; TG Respect.">reverence</a> <i>her</i> husband.
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